Tag: Ride Your Bike - Page 4

I will not go into detail about why I visited the doctor last night, but after describing my symptoms and being the subject of a rigorous examination, his first question was, "Do you ride a bicycle?" When I said yes, everywhere, he gave me his

How Awesome is Copenhagen? Very Awesome!
Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms has just released the third short film in his 'Copenhagen Trilogy', and it is great! We've written a lot about cargo bikes here at TreeHugger because we think they are

Designboom has been spoonfeeding out the short list in the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010 over the last few weeks. Some have been idiosyncratic and odd, but others, like this Bagbike from Francois Bernard, Sonja Breuninger and Marion Pinaffo makes

A lot of Torontonians are wondering where they will move after the election in October, as the candidates race to the bottom to outdo each other in slashing services, getting rid of bike lanes, building underground highways that make Boston's Big Dig

Bikes are for Everyone
While in some parts of the world (Copenhagen, Amsterdam), cycling is the most normal thing in the world for both sexes, other places have had more problems making women feel like cycling might be for them. Thankfully, this is

Photo: Tom Wilson
Kind of Like a Bike SUV
Tom Wilson sure likes to ride around the Burning Man festival in style! He designs and builds giant quad bikes that are, in my opinion, amazingly cool and beautiful. So far he has completed three projects: The

A former crackhead tells all in the Guardian about his career as a bicycle thief and what he does to avoid having his own bike stolen. We have noted before that the weight of the bike lock is inversely proportional to the

Trial by fire is always the best way to go, right? Well...anyway. From September 20-25, I'll be putting one of the most interesting bamboo bikes on the market (as well as my body) to the test as one of 150

Hey Boss! Where Should We Put All Those Bikes?A couple of photos of a building covered in bicycles started floating around the net a few days ago (I first saw them on Copenhagenize). It's a bike shop in Germany, and when I

From bike co-ops in LA, to this massive stash of recycled bikes somewhere in the UK, one of the most encouraging things about bike transportation is how egalitarian it is. Almost anyone can learn the art of bike mechanics.

During his time as President of the United States, George W. Bush's love of mountain biking was no secret. Bush still rides with his training-team-cum-security-staff, known as Peleton 1, which includes Brandon

NYC's bike-share is likely to be similar to other existing programs. The one pictured here is in Taipei. Photo: Flickr, CC
Starting with 10,500 Bikes, Then Increasing to 49,000
Biking in New York City has been growing at a good clip in recent years

Like American cities, Toronto is taxed-starved to the point that a couple of years ago it couldn't find $75K to save its community yellow bike system. But its gotta be, as a former mayor used to say, "World Class", so if Paris and London and Montreal

Canada's ten provinces have varying rules about bicycle helmets; some make them mandatory, some mandatory for those under 18 years old, and some with no legislation. It makes for an interesting study on The effects of